NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 April 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS .

RETURNING SOLDIERS. . : NO PRELIMINARY NOTICE/' RAIEWAy PASSES STOPI^EIU - At i WELLINGTON, April;:2s. Owing to the danger of ppssiblco-cny etflijr raiders in. these seas the British Admiralty has now issued definite instructions that'on no account must any ship use its wireless for the purpose of intimating its porbable date of arrival, even when within 24 hours of the port of disembarkation. This will mean that no notification of the time of the arrival of a troopship will be received, except the estimated date, which will be cabled from the last port of call. This notification will make its impossibe to give any reliable information to the public, and consequently the Government has had reluctantly to issue instructions that the present concessions of issuing free railway passes to next of kin will be discontinued from this date. The Defence Department will, upon receipt of cabled advice of a soldier’s return, notify the next of kin, but no definite dates can bo stated. Upon the arrival of the ship at the first port of call a telegram will be dispatched immediately to the next of kin, notifying the approximate time at which the soldier will arrive at his home. If the soldier is to he an in-patient at a hospital, the time of disembarkation will be handed to the Press Association for general information.